Bluefield Faces Prolonged Hazardous Driving Without Salt
Cold Arctic air mingles with warm Gulf system bringing freezing rain sleet and snow. Bluefield awaits salt until late February relying on cinders and pea stone for traction while urging limited travel. Nearby towns report dwindling salt with gravel salt mixes to preserve supplies as roads ice up and conditions remain dangerous.
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Dallas Fowler
Fowler
Jim Mayo
Mayo
Gulf
Richard Calcaterra
National Weather Service
Beckley
Calcaterra
Mercer County
Huffman
Tazewell County
Knoxville
Princeton City
Jack Phillips
Drug bust in Tazewell nets nine arrests in Bluefield area
Nine people were arrested in Bluefield and Crescent View Apartments after sealed indictments by a county grand jury. The operation, begun around 6 a.m. Wednesday by the Tazewell County Narcotics Task Force, targeted crack cocaine distribution with charges including multiple counts for several suspects.
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Tazewell
Tazewell County
Crescent View
Bluefield
D.J. Johnson
Johnson
Task Force
Earl Leon Bradshaw Jr
Wilson St
Lovell Moses
Crescent View Apartments
Apt. 1
James Moore
Randy Moore
Crescent
Community notices and events in Bluefield area
Mercer County NAACP meets at Bluefield Community Center Friday at 11 a.m. Princeton High School Class of 1969 holds a Saturday noon meeting at Appalachian Power Co. Graham High School Band Boosters host spaghetti dinner Saturday 4 to 8 p.m. at Graham Middle School with Jazz Ensemble. Veterans of Foreign Wars Pinnacle Post 3856 meets Sunday 2 p.m. at Greater Bluefield Community Center. Knights of Columbus Council 140 spaghetti dinner Sunday noon to 4 p.m. at Sacred Heart lounge. adults $5. takeouts available.
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NAACP
Bluefield
Peck St
Princeton High School
Appalachian Power Co
Graham High School
Graham Middle School
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Pinnacle Post No
Greater Bluefield
Knights of Columbus Council No. 140
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
North County Weather Update Freezing Rain Likely
Today highs 30 to 35 degrees with freezing rain likely and a chance of light snow. Tonight partly cloudy with lows in the upper 20s. Weather package A-10.
Truce brings children out in Sarajevo hope endures
After 22 months of shelling a new cease fire allows children to play on see sat ws near a UN post as Bosnian Serb leaders threaten to walk out in Geneva. Radovan Karadzic denounces NATO and calls for an investigation into Saturday's deadly Sarajevo shelling with warnings to hostage aid workers if Serbs face air strikes.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
NATO
U.N
Ajla Foco
Geneva
Bosnia
Radovan Karadzic
Karadzic
McDowell County coal mine blast survivor recalls family tragedy
Alice Sisk recalls a 1930 Lunar Mine photo showing her husband Everett Harless Sisk among miners. After the 1938 Red Jacket Coal Co blast that killed 48 men, she moved from McDowell County to Keen Mountain and later Athens. Her four children, spared from mining, pursued education and moved across the U S while she remains independent in Athens.
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McDowell County
Alice Sisk
Lunar
Everett Harless Sisk
Sisk
Everett
Crumpler
Keen Mountain
Red Jacket Coal Company
Harless
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Charles Owens
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Serbia
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